Desire Quote by J.M. Coetzee

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange.

— Anonymous

“Hell is all desire without the possibility of fulfillment. Heaven is all fulfillment without the possibility of desire.”

— David A. Beardsley

“words are powerful and dangerous things … all those who read are searching — they seek to fill the empty portions of their souls. It”

— Shae Ford

“Text of bliss: the text that imposes a state of loss, the text that discomforts (perhaps to the point of a certain boredom), unsettles…

— Roland Barthes

“Stories open the door to the darkened room. Language can carry us past the horror to the sense of purpose in a life that…

— Dorothy Allison

“The pleasures of heaven are with me, and the pains of hell are with me, The first I graft and increase upon myself ...…

— Walt Whitman

“Our desire for these things is insatiable, perhaps because they help to narrativize and streamline the chaos and absence of meaning.”

— Ted Pigeon

“We seek substance, but fear its heft; seek direction, but fear its constriction; seek the comfort of knowing what we are meant to do…

— Sarah Menkedick

“Words are the mirrors of our discontents merely; they contain all the huge unhatched eggs of the world's sorrows.”

— Lawrence Durrell

“Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.”

— T.F. Hodge

“It is not with earth, though I must till it, I feel at war..but I may not profit of what it bears of beauty,untoiling,…

— George Gordon Byron

“Absence is the figure of privation; simultaneously, I desire and I need. Desire is squashed against need: that is the obsessive phenomenon of all…

— Roland Barthes